Citations:toney

English citations of toney

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1894 — Paul Leicester Ford, The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him, Stitt Publishing Company (1894), Chapter XXXIX:
[…] So you've yielded to the demands of your toney friends?"
1899 — Edward Noyes Westcott, David Harum, D. Appleton and Company (1899), Chapter XII:
"I guess he won't stay 'round here long. I guess you'll find he's a little too toney fer these parts, an' in pertic'ler fer Dave Harum. […]
1913 — Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass, Chapter XVI:
"Mercy me, ain't that nice--quite toney. I hope he'll win if Mister Bobo's horse don't."
1918 — William Magney, The Hunt Ball Mystery, Chapter II:
[…] The ball will be rather a toney affair."
1921 — Edward R. G. R. Evans, South with Scott, Collins' Clear-Type Press (1921), Chapter VII:
Ours was the Mayfair district: Wilson and I lived in Park Lane in those days, whilst Captain Scott occupied Grosvenor Street! He had his own little table covered with "toney" green linoleum, […]
1921 — D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl, Thomas Seltzer (1921), Chapter XII:
The really toney women of the place came to take tea in her room, and these little teas in the hospital were like a little elegant female conspiracy.